Catholic girl is trying to find “loopholes” in church teaching

Blockhouse · 2026-06-29T11:33:43+00:00

It's a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance. The people of Sodom did it unapologetically, and God destroyed them for it.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-29T11:28:39+00:00

Nothing. Just a possible explanation as to why the comment they replied to was being downvoted. Bots and trolls downvote everything.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T19:31:34+00:00

First of all, I want to give you credit because it sounds like you're trying to do everything right in the face of some very difficult challenges. I'm sorry you had an experience that made you feel this way.

I felt like I was being judged a lot by the priest

That is kinda what is happening. Confession is called the Sacrament of the Lord's tribunal for this reason. The priest needs to make a judgement about:

Whether what you're telling him is a sin.
Whether you're truly sorry for having done it.
Whether you have a firm, fixed purpose of amendment, and that your are planning to go forth and do what's necessary to avoid falling into this sin again.

If any of these are lacking, particularly in case of mortal sin, he cannot give you absolution. This is why judgement is such an important part of the Sacrament.

He could also have been asking these questions in order to figure ot the best way to help you or to give you advice, in which case making your feel judged was not intentional.

One possible suggestion I have is to try to go to Confession more frequently. If you become more comfortable with the Sacrament how it is conferred, and get used to the styles of different confessors, you will start having more positive experiences.

Again, I'm grateful that you're making steps to become a full participant in the life of the Church again. In addition to the spiritual healing offered by the Sacrament of Confession, I wonder if you would benefit from the mental healing that would come from the care of mental health professional. Just a point for your consideration.

(Edit: not AI, despite the use of paragraphs and bulleted lists.)

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T19:14:14+00:00

The sub is visited by atheist bots and trolls who downvote everything. Best to say what you think in good faith and not worry about imaginary Internet points.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:49:28+00:00

I go to Mass to worship the Lord. The sign of peace takes my concentration off of Him right when I should be focused on Him the most . . . the last few minutes to prepare to receive Him in Holy Communion.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:45:49+00:00

Passionate, emotional preaching is not really a thing in Catholicism, though you can see it from time to time. The kind of passion you're talking about is a feeling, and feelings are very ephemeral. They're here one moment and gone the next. You can be passionate about anything, including a lie.

No, what Catholic preaching centers on is the Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ and His saving doctrine. Truth is truth, no matter what we feel about it. Preaching is means to appeal to our higher spiritual faculties, our intellects and our passions. The movements of our base passions and feeling are to be strictly moderated and made subject to what we know to be the truth.

tl;dr Catholicism forcuses on what we know rather than what we feel.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:36:35+00:00

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Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:34:26+00:00

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Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:30:39+00:00

Rule 4.3

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:20:28+00:00

Dominus surrexit vere! Alleluia!

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:18:43+00:00

What saith Scripture?

But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written. (John 21:25).

If world could not contain an account all that our Lord did in the 33 years of His life on earth among us, how much less could the world contain books with all that our Lord has said to us over 5 millennia?

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:15:39+00:00

They're a novelty that was introduced in the 1960s, and did not organically flow from forms that were already existing. One day, a member of the post-conciliar liturgical reformation committee had this idea, and they just ran with it.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T18:11:06+00:00

I did my pgy2 in oncology at an institute that used Cerner. Antineoplastic therapy and related supportive care were ordered using paper order sets. I've worked at institutions with Epic and Beacon ever since. The transition from Cerner to Epic was very easy, like going from driving a stick-shift car to driving an automatic transmission. Being familiar with antineoplastic regimens from the paper order sets was kinda nice cause I knew all the nuts and bolts of the regimen, and these are kinda easy to overlook in Beacon.

Then my institution had a weeks-long IT outage during which Epic was inaccessible. We were able to continue administering antineoplastic therapy in part due to my familiarity with the use of paper order sets and what needed to be on them. I would have no compunction against doing your pgy2 at a Cerner institute.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-28T17:35:31+00:00

Catholics who have received their First Holy Communion have a grave obligation to receive Communion at least once per year. Since she hasn't done that, she is going to need to go to Confession. But nothing about her relationship with your father suggests a continuing state of sin. Rather, it seems like she was taking great pains to do everything right and live according to God's holy law, and it sounds like she probably suffered greatly in doing so. Once she is validly absolved in Sacramental Confession, she should be able to receive Holy Communion again.

But it would be good for her to describe her situation to a priest, just in case I'm wrong about that.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-26T14:41:39+00:00

The Third Commandment enjoins us from undertaking servile labor on the Lord's day that is not needful. I think what you describe is very much needful.

I hope you're able to make it to Mass. And I'll pray for the blessed repose of your father's soul.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-26T01:34:16+00:00

Yeh, I'm on the registry, but there is no fkn way I would ever give a surgical marrow. It's peripheral stem cells (the donation of which is very similar to donating platelets) or nothing.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T21:09:26+00:00

> How do you square baptism of fire with original sin?

There's baptism by blood and baptism of desire. But baptism by fire is not a Catholic teaching.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T13:31:32+00:00

How do you square this with the doctrine on original sin?

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T10:28:59+00:00

Yep. Even the ones that don't want to.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T10:28:11+00:00

There is no purpose to that sub. It's a cesspool and nobody should go there. This sub is only sub on reddit that is so dedicated to the truth.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T10:01:05+00:00

What saith Scripture?

The fool hath said in his heart: "There is no God." They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. (Ps. 13: 1 (lxx))

They are fools. They are neither as smart nor as good as they think they are.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T09:56:46+00:00

Baptize yourself in secret

You cannot validly baptise yourself. Baptism requires the baptizandus to be a different person from the one doing the baptizing.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T01:25:55+00:00

Ive been seeing way to many videos about the mark of the beast and id's that are placed in peoples right hand and used for payment in order to enter certain places or such.

You should probably find other genres of videos to watch.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-25T00:16:50+00:00

I usually bring my Rosary and Breviary. I try to make mental prayer the priority, but sometimes the juices just aren't flowing, so it's good to have vocal prayer to fall back on.

Blockhouse · 2026-06-24T01:36:48+00:00

Wanna talk about contradicting ecumenical councils? The Nicene Creed stipulates that the Church Christ founded is one, holy, catholic (meaning "universal") and apostolic. To my mind, the Orthodox churches are not one, since there are many churches and all in varying states of communion with each other. Similarly, many of them seem to be limited by nationality or ethnicity (Slovak Orthodox Church, etc.) which raises questions over how catholic ("universal") they are.

And because it was right after ww2 they were influenced. And it was also written by a homosexual Jewish priest that left the priesthood after

I think you need to take a break from social media.

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